MY BLOOD DIAMONDS (1st part) : Patrick NAGBEH/SCAMMER

This real story comes in several parts due to multiple developments and scams arising for the first one. Then, this FIRST PART comes like a short appetizer.

Everything started with a trip to Freetown, SIERRA LEONE, to visit diamonds traders and purchase rough diamonds for which buyers are forced to process an upfront payment to get a regular Kimberley Process Certificate (KPC) and show evidence of funds. By leaving Sierra Leone, I first let a small cash amount, and then transferred another larger amount (USD 3’050) to my scammer to purchase a small sample industrialized diamonds parcel on behalf of me, and then pay duties and shipment.

As I never received diamonds as well as I never received refund, I may only say I have been ripped off.

My scammer is:
Mr. Patrick Doe NAGBEH
Born on OCT 24, 1964 in Kenema (Sierra Leone), PASSPORT N°0197564
Halima Trading International (SL) Ltd
70B Bass Street, Brookfields,
FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
Tel: +232 33 815 903 / +232 30 815 903
Email: [email protected]



There is no proof for the money I let him in cash, but bank transfer of USD 3’050 made on May 9, 2008, may be easily tracked. This money was transferred into his bank account as follow:

Bank: Rokel Commercial Bank (Sierra Leone) Limited
Address Bank: 25/27 Siaka Stevens Street, Freetown, SIERRA LEONE
Account Name: Halima Trading International (SL)
Account Number: 1477702
SWIFT Code: RCBKSLFR
Phone Bank: (+232) 222-501
Fax Bank: (232) 222-563
Email Bank: [email protected]

Therefore, a legal complaint alleging violations of criminal laws has been sent to Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Sierra Leone Police Headquarters, which remained as dead letter until I mandated another Sierra Leonean citizen.

Due to pressure of my mandate who has probably paid for that, Mr. Patrick NAGBEH was arrested by CID (Tel: +232/076646657, +232/033646657 and +232/030646657) on August 18, 2008, and then as soon as released on the sole promise to pay me back.

Several months later, any refund was made, and everything could let be thinking that the criminal Mr. Patrick NAGBEH has probably purchased his impunity.

Ranked policeman in charge of this matter has been contacted many times, but, for processing a new arrest, he requires every time I send him money because “his guys have to purchase many things”. Name and contact details of this policeman will be published soon through another part of this incredible story which seems to have no end.

Mr. Abdul TEJAN-COLE, President of ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION (Tel: +232 22 221468; Fax: +232 22 221900; Cell: +23276244720; Email: [email protected] ) has been contacted, and urgently required an investigation to Mr. KOI (+232 77 985 985 or +232 77 986 986), Investigation Manager. Next to ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION investigation, SILENCE was the sole response they have given to me.

Finally, Mr. Fidelis ADELE, Managing Director of CONCORD TIMES (Tel: +232/22229199; +232/33499004; +232/76585150; Email: [email protected] ) in Sierra Leone has also been contacted in regard to this first scam and another one really much more serious. He also urgently required details from me to investigate, and next, the sole issue given to me is still SILENCE.

ON THIS DAY, Mr. NAGBEH ENJOYS HIS HAPPY LIFE OF CRIMINAL IN SIERRA LEONE DESPITE OF COMPLAINT FILED TO INTERPOL.

TO CONTINUE… SOON.

Hi Bao,
Welcome to Scamwarners,

I will go through and see what I can dig up with a few Google searches

First up, the email address Click Here

It shows 2 hits, soon there will be a third thanks to your post, The second hit takes me to a website http://www.halimatradingroup.com I am no expert on websites and there authenticity but searching on the website brings me another possible site associated with this one Click Here

Now to the website, a whois lookup shows me this

Registration Service Provided By: WEBLINK PERIPHERALS INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
Contact: +91.41428133

Domain Name: HALIMATRADINGROUP.COM

Registrant:
Halima Trading International
Patrick D. Nagbeh ([email protected])
70B- Bass Street, Brookfields
FREETOWN
Not Applicable,38962837
SL
Tel. +232.33545416

Creation Date: 25-Sep-2008 Notice here the one year registration, the site was registered in September which is common for fake websites
Expiration Date: 25-Sep-2009

Domain servers in listed order:
ns2.indian-business-portal.com
ns1.indian-business-portal.com


Administrative Contact:
Halima Trading International
Patrick D. Nagbeh ([email protected])
70B- Bass Street, Brookfields
FREETOWN
Not Applicable,38962837
SL
Tel. +232.33545416

Technical Contact:
Weblink India. Net Pvt. Ltd.
Host Master ([email protected])
G-100, Pushkar Enclave, Paschim Vihar
New Delhi
Delhi,110063
IN
Tel. +91.1141428131
Fax. +91.1141427820

Billing Contact:
Weblink India. Net Pvt. Ltd.
Host Master ([email protected])
G-100, Pushkar Enclave, Paschim Vihar
New Delhi
Delhi,110063
IN
Tel. +91.1141428131
Fax. +91.1141427820

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I am sure one of our other members can tell you more but it hardly gives me confidence and especially with what has happened to you.

Another thing I have found is this add placed a month ago Click Here which hardly seems like something a scammer would do but it doesn't mean much just yet.

Now I will turn my attention to the phone numbers used,
Click Here
and here

Again, my searching isn't turning up too much of interest so I will turn to the passport (BTW, would you mind editing it with writing on it to the effect of used by scammers, it saves a scammer coming here and beggining to use that ID)
I used Tineye with no result,

I haven't searched on the passport details which could give me a result but what I would rather look at is the emails you were sent, if you could remove your own details and post them here it will serve as a public record that somebody else may find but also it will give me some more to search on.

Now the police who you are sending money to, to me this sounds as much of a scam as anything you have mentioned and I suggest that stop immediately, I know these countries thrive on corruption but by effectively bribing the police, if it is indeed the police the it will not be helping matters and in fact encourageing them not to solve your case if they are legitimate as while it is not solved they can continue to steal more from you.

I am not sure exactly what is going on here, something is obviously wrong but without the actual emails it is hard to tell what that is.

Now, what I do find strange, the details of those people who are helping you the commisioner for coruption who uses yahoo for his email address, so I did a search on it [url=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&[email protected]&btnG=Search[Click Here [/url] this guy has as many houses as occupations, while no single one of those search results says scam all of them together is starting to tell a story.

What I think may have happened is the jewel traders are not necessarily internet thieves that we normally deal with, the regular signs dont appear to be there, they have however found an oportunity to steal from you and made the most of it, somehow, after that, you have gotten in touch with this multiskilled person who is sometimes the commissioner for corruption, I am guessing that he contacted you, now this does sound a little more like a traditional revcovery scam, the police, without knowing their email address yet I am presuming they are a free email provider such as yahoo and I would imagine they are in on the recovery scam.

If you could post some of those details I think we may be able to get a better picture

Edited to fix some typos

The police you are dealing with are almost certanily not law enforcement. They are scammers. Probably from the same gang and maybe even the original scammer himself. It's very, very common for a scammer to try to hit a paying victim a second time by using this method.
It's what we call a "Recovery Scam". Please read up about the subject here on this forum or Google "recovery+scam".

NEVER send any money to anyone thinking that you are going to get the scammer arrested or that you are going to get your money refunded. No legitimate law agency would charge a victim money in your situation.

Thank you for your first responses.

I confirm that this Policeman in charge of this matter is a REGULAR RANKED POLICEMAN, member of CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DEPARTMENT of SIERRA LEONE POLICE HEADQUARTERS. Further details will be coming soon. Thank you for your understanding.

Also, I never paid for this policeman does his job properly, and I will not do it.

I also confirm that Mr. Abdul TEJAN-COLE is well known in Sierra Leone as President of ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION. Please, click here for more details http://www.anticorruption.sl/

While I agree there is most likely a commissioner in Africa with that name, I would think his email address would look more like this one E-mail: [email protected] which was copied from that site.

Just because the name being used belongs to a policeman, it doesn't mean that you've actually got that policeman on the other end of the email. Scammers use aliases all the time.
When you think about it, it's a totally logical thing to do. If they use an alias that you can Google and connect to a name and a face, they build your trust.

As Ralph also suggests, the fact that the "Commisioner" is using a Yahoo mail address points to him being just another scammer. Also, think about this as well: unless you've lost millions, do you really think you'd be dealing with the top corruption guy in Sierra Leone?

I do not believe that the email address of Mr. Tejan-Cole is used by an alias or something like that. I'm really sure about the right person belonging this email. This name, contact informations (phone, email, etc) have been collected at the US Embassy in Freetown, and confirmed by the Sierra Leonean Lawyers Council.

The problem is not which one you mentioned.

I wont be able to do anything until tomorrow but if you would like to forward some of their emails to me I can look into it for you

Reuters interviewed him a year ago, and he comes across as an honest man trying to deal with corruption. No disrespect intended, but I doubt he'll succeed.
http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN648028.html
Using his name to set up a bogus yahoo account would be a typical recovery scammer trick. Take Charles Soludo, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.Genuine, but there are so many fakes that you see lad gems like this.

It is with great indignation and sadness that I inform you that the so called Pro. Charles Soludo you have
been dealing with is fake and dose not represent this office in anyway at all. It is a well known fact that
the name Prof. Charles Soludo is the most impersonated name in the Nigeria by fruaster and other African
countries.

@ bao.

How did you first come into contact with Tejan-Cole?

Policeman was contacted, first, by fax sent to Criminal Investigation Department, Sierra Leone Police Headquarters, and Mr.Tejan-Cole, first of all, by email, through the Sierra Leone Lawyers Council, because, before to be the President of Anti-Corruption Commission, he was a lawyer. Then, you may be sure that communication was not made with someone else than those right persons. For your information, a letter to require his assistance has even been sent to Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma, President of Sierra Leone. You could understand the reason of this, throughout the others parts of multiple scams supported, including blackmails, threats, etc. More details coming soon.

Invitations to read and/or participate to this forum have also been sent to the ranked policeman, Mr. Tejan-Cole and Mr. Adele (managing director of Concord Times SL).

A couple of weeks ago, Mr. Patrick NAGBEH has contacted my business associate (BAO who has also created this topic through this forum), and then purposed him a refund by arrangement, step by step. In fact, Mr. NAGBEH has launched his own website http://www.halimatradingroup.com to attract pigeons to rip off and then, it seems he's now suffering of these informations displayed at scamwarners. As he said to my business partner, these informations are ruining his reputation. Indeed, as soon as we are looking for his name or the name of his small company HALIMA TRADING INTERNATIONAL through Google, we arrive HERE! Great. Great. Great. Of course, any refund was made because Mr. Patrick NAGBEH is a SCAMMER and anything else.

Also, as Mr. NAGBEH is an insolvent person, Sierra Leonean Police officer in charge of his case lets him living pretty quiet.

Too bad I found this page just now.Because I have another tricked by Patrick Nagbeh. Here is briefly how it happened. Touch with Patrick in August 2009.He offer me over 500 carats diamonds, send me specification and prices.At this time contacted with other companies and compare different proposals.The prices of all honors were the same, quality too.We chose Patrick because no hurry to deal.I did the registration of my company, took the license for trade in rough diamonds, prepared everything necessary for a legitimate and legal business.In early January 2010 Patrick sent me an invitation from his name and business visa.As soon as I bought tickets and organize my trip.We agreed that everything will be completed in three days. Explained the approximate quantity and the final price and method of payment (bank transfer). And so the evening on 26.01.2010 I landed in Freetown.I met a man who presented as Patrick"s brother.Patrick is waiting on the other side of the bay of the port.Take me to the hotel.

There came another two people that Patrick introduced me this: the older as the owner of mines for extraction of diamonds, the youngest as holder of a license for export.learned on the morning Patrick to send me your driver to go to the bank to open an account, to be able my partners to send the money. After that to go to their office where I can look and choose the stones. Then they went away.
The next morning came the driver and Patrick"s brother.Finished quickly with the bank and went to their office.There, they really showed me a large amount of diamonds, more than 500 carats.And I began to choose. Examination I lasted about three hours. During this time they behaved peacefully without worry me, totally professional.I separated four sets of stones and agreed to the price. Sealing them in envelopes, which I signed, then in plastic bags and then put them bound with duct tape which I also signed. Normal procedure is done so in the world.

The time was around 16.30 and found out the next day to do the inspection and sealing of goods by an officer of GDDO. Patrick asked me three hundred dollars can pay for advance check and said that against the All of 1% more will be formed more quickly. I agreed to this option.I called my partners and told them how much to send.Driver ride me to the hotel and we found the evening to drive me somewhere to dinner.In the evening everything was OK.In the morning went with Patrick"s brother to the bank to make sure that the money arrived.From there we went to the office where we waited for Patrick and the license holder. Patrick asked me to withdraw cash and thus reckoning, but I refused.